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Bali Volcano Erupts for Second Time in a Week

Mount Agung erupted on Saturday evening and three times early Sunday, lighting its cone with an orange glow and sending ash 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) into the atmosphere. The volcano's last major eruption in 1963 killed about 1,100 people. (Published Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017)

New findings show that a large bubble of hot rock may be rising under New England.

"The upwelling we detected is like a hot air balloon, and we infer that something is rising up through the deeper part of our planet under New England," Rutgers geophysicist Vadim Levin told ScienceAlert.

But the researchers also told National Geographic there's nothing to worry about -- at least not yet. The rising bubble of hot rock could be many millions of years old, and it's moving at an extremely slow pace.

In other words, don't expect to see a volcano explode out of the Berkshires anytime soon. At least not for another 50 million years or so.